Visual Projects Editor

Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account. Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.

We're looking for a visual projects editor to lead the production of innovative, impactful visual journalism with a graphical, interactive, multimedia or spatial focus.

Here is a look at the team's wide-ranging and impactful work:

• Meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
• London buses in decline? Why public transport in global cities is slowing to a crawl – visualised
• Nigel Farage and Count Binface: a visual guide to their electoral careers
• #Toddler Skincare: the ‘dark and exploitative' world of children's beauty videos on Tik Tok

This is a full-time, permanent NUJ contract on a five day week working pattern.

• Report on, structure and edit visual stories, write engaging copy, and ensure that words and visual elements are intuitively integrated
• Collaborate with reporters and editors to conceptualise visual news stories, drawing on knowledge of data visualisation and sharp skills in visual storytelling
• Interrogate datasets and other types of information for veracity, reliability and newsworthiness
• Explore emerging technologies and develop the technical skills required to advance the department's visual investigative and innovation capabilities
• Employ hands-on project management skills to lead working groups to produce visualisations, interactives and new formats
• Work with interactive journalists, developers, designers, data journalists and correspondents to push the bounds of what a news story can be in a multi-platform digital space
• Use your knowledge of the digital news ecosystem to ensure that visual projects are newsworthy, timely and clear
• Regularly contribute new ideas for visual and data stories, and articulate the value of telling these stories visually
• Keep abreast of the news agenda, emerging technologies and new storytelling techniques

There are several different profiles that would be a good match for this role; we are not expecting a single candidate to have all of the skills/competencies listed below.

• Strong track record of providing editorial leadership and overarching guidance on complex visual storytelling projects
• Ideally you will have experience adapting data-driven visual journalism for different platforms and audiences, such as social video
• Experience editing/reporting data or mixed media stories (e.g.: graphics, postcode lookups, satellite imagery, video, audio, animation, 3D modelling)
• Experience analysing data, using tools such as R or similar
• Expertise in the development of interactive graphics, using libraries such as Svelte, React, d3 or similar (desirable)
• Experience creating mobile-first visual journalism with UX needs in mind
• Ability to storyboard visual articles, using Illustrator, Figma or similar (desirable)
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite including Illustrator (desirable)
• Experience working on teams that encompass a range of different skills
• Excellent creative project management and communication skills
• Literacy in data visualisation, with knowledge of approaches and techniques
• Front-end web development skills are an advantage, including Java script, HTML, and CSS
• Experience analysing OSINT materials, using tools such as Google Earth or similar, is desirable
• Ideally, you'll have a demonstrable ability to bring a diverse…